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[2000-01-29-TWA-Total Impact TV] American Dragon & Spanky vs Board of Education (Jeremy Sage & Reuben Curz)


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HBK has a special surprise for the Board of Education who are essentially doing a Mean Street Posse gimmick. Shawn brings out Dragon and Spanky teaming together and they rush out to a house of fire. Dragon botches a dropkick in the early goings here. It is interesting to me that I wouldn’t call Dragon bad by any means and as I have mentioned before, the stiff strikes are there but he doesn’t look as polished as AJ and Low Ki for sure or really even Kendrick to a degree. Elbow drop and fog splash dives gain Spanky and Dragon the titles. The referee informs Shawn that the belts can’t change hands. Sounds like a lot of authority this referee thrusted upon himself. Shawn makes it a tag team title match right now and the bell rings. Rueben Crews is able to catch Dragon with a belly to belly. It is interesting to see Shawn in this capacity. Shawn is presented as such a big star in WWF mythos and here he is in a small indy and now he has his own hunting show that is viewed by generally no one. Big schmozz happens for this at the finish with Big Bad John leading the charge. These guys are apostles of Venom. *3/4

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Shawn Michaels makes a surprise match for the champs, which Spanky and Dragon win, but the referee disallows the title change since the bell never rang and the champs were never told it was a title match. Shawn restarts the match as a title match at that point. Within a minute or so, a group of heels led by Venom run in to attack both teams and end the match in a DQ. This is a lot of booking for an 8-minute segment, but it was fun.

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  • 4 weeks later...

One of the Board of education looks like Gangrel's son. This wasn't as good as the other TWA stuff but Dragon and Spanky look like a good tag team. HBK doesn't work very well as the trouble shooting matchmaker. Wasn't expecting a dusty finish. Before they could really get going, Venom and his crew run in. Diamond looks totally different from his Memphis run 2 years earlier.

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Shawn Michaels is in the ring and he brings out the Board of Education as he has a special surprise for them. He tells them that a couple of TWA stars came to him and said they would like to change their goals. They had individual goals, but now have a collective one, and that’s to be the TWA tag team champions. He then introduces their new competition, American Dragon and Spanky, who both sprint to the ring and attack the Board of Education. Dragon starts laying those shots into Sage, before completely missing a dropkick and he tags out to Cruz. Drop toe hold and Spanky with a leg drop from the apron over the top rope onto him. Spanky with a missile dropkick to the back of Cruz, a backdrop driver and Sage is in to break up the pin. All four men are in the ring and Dragon with the ‘cactus clothesline’ to Sage and Spanky with a tornado DDT to Cruz. Face first suplex, Dragon with an elbow off the top, followed by Spanky with a frog splash for the three.

 

The commentators then immediately start questioning if we’ve seen a title change and whether Dragon and Spanky are the new champions. The Board of Education start talking with the referee who goes outside to Michaels and says that the bell for the match never rand, plus he as the official was never informed this would be a title match so he can’t award the belts to Spanky and Dragon. HBK says there is only one thing he can do, and that’s to make this a title match right now and he restarts the match. Spanky throws Sage to the floor and a pescado out onto him. Cruz with a belly to belly on Dragon, but he misses a Lionsault. Spanky with a pair of clotheslines then dropkicks to the Board of Education. Face first suplex to Sage, Dragon with the elbow off the top and as Spanky readies himself for the frog splash, he is nailed in the back with a kendo stick from Venom (Paul Diamond) and falls to the canvas. Venom and his entourage (Big Bad John and Wayne Knight) attack both teams and the match is thrown out. Venom gets on the mic and says you’re either with him or against him, and this is what happens when you’re against him. After Team Venom leaves the four laying in the ring, once they get to their feet we get a little more action including a couple of crazy dives to the floor from Dragon and Spanky before they go to a commercial.

 

Awful, awful finish. Not once, but twice! We think we’ve seen a tag change only to get a Dusty finish, then it looks like we’re ‘really’ about to see one, only to get screwed again due to a run-in. Two short sprints and the action wasn’t bad (bar one missed Dragon dropkick), but those endings sends this to the bottom of the pile.

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  • 9 months later...

This was pretty odd... Just a wild match all over the place that never really goes anywhere. Ruben Cruz looks like a lost Mean Street Posse member and Jeremy Sage looks like he stole the pirate shirt from Seinfeld. Not Dragon's or Spanky's best work.

 

The outcome didn't help this either.

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